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Mancinella capensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852) 
AphiaID: 714197

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Mancinella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mancinella Link, 1807
Synonymised
taxa
  Purpura capensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1852 (original combination)
Reishia capensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Thais capensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
Sources  basis of record: Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.014 [details]

additional source (from synonym): Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 89 [details] [view taxon]


identification resource (from synonym): Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English knobbly dogwhelk (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution South Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
Image 
Mancinella capensis
Mancinella capensis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:714197
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2012-12-28 02:00:29Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Mancinella capensis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714197 on 2013-06-19
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